"Osservando il lavoro di Anna Willieme, quindi, ci si troverà in presenza di un progetto complesso fondato sull'evocazione onirica ma solo all'interno di un vuoto virtuale, una traslazione spaziale che si propone come utopia reale, definita, determinata dal contrasto interno dei propri segni, lo stesso contrasto che imponendo all'osservatore la pausa, l'attesa, tramuta il suo silenzioso comunicare in astrazione concreta, estetica".

 

(Domenico Scudero, Astromaps: un laboratorio estatico,

by Astromaps (solo show Anna Willieme), Change, Rome, 1997)

 

  

 

"Travel is a central theme in my work.

Suitcases, airports, maps, astronomical images and dreams

act as symbols of travel representing inner and outer explorations and metaphorical itineraries". 

 

(Anna Willieme, by Runways, 2010)

 

 

 

 

 

ANNA WILLIEME, is a visual artist living between Boston and New York City and working with photography, print, painting and installation.

 

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Anna Willieme is a lecturer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and a participating artist in group and solo exhibitions in both the United States and in Europe. Willieme works with a variety of visual media including photography, printing, painting, and installation. Her work has been exhibited at HereArt and Silicon Gallery in New York City, University of Santa Cruz in Santa Cruz California, Change + Partner Contemporary Art in Rome, and Mlac - Museo Laboratorio di Arte Contemporanea  dell'Università degli studi "La Sapienza" in Rome, 

A .K. Galerie Hans Sworowski/Home Abroad e. V. in Frankfurt, l’Escale, Espace d’Art Contemporain in Brussels, and Galerie Chardin in Paris.

 

Working with art in public spaces, her projects have been featured in Rome at the Leonardo da Vinci Airport and at the Roma 10 Post Office, and she was selected to participate in “Arte a Roma,” organized in collaboration with the city’s Museum of Modern Art. She also created projects for Danube Film Festival which traveled to Vienna, Bratislava, and Budapest.

 

With an interest in the connections between art and science, Willieme is creator of ArtLab, which explores the connections between art, science and medicine and teaches for Columbia University College for Surgeons and Physicians “The Professional Eye.” This innovative course on visual perception for medical students uses observation and description of art as a means of enhancing visual diagnostic communication skills.

 

She is the recipient of grants from the Foundation for Art and Healing and the Arnold P. Gold Foundation and was a selected participant at the Banff residency program in Banff, Canada.